Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-11
INTERESTING CATHOLIC ITEMS,
The Pope's Letier-Preparations for
the Jubilee, &c.

INTERESTING CATHOLIC ITEMS.
The Pope's Letter-Prepnrations for
the Jubilee, 6c.
Preparations are being made in oil the
churches in the city for the fortieth an
niyersary OF the elevation to the priest
hood OF Leo XIII.
Bishop Keane has received a letter
from the Pope signed by NJ. Cardinal
Ledochowski. This, like all the docu-
ments issued by the Holy Father, is in
Latin. and a copy has been sent to every
bishop in the world. A translated copy
will be in every pastors hand in order
that he may read it next Sunday to his
flock, accompanied by the following
from Bishop Keane
We direct that this letter of our Holy
Father be read to the people, and IN
order that the favors granted in it may
be gained by all we wish Dovenas to be
made according to the directions laid
down in the letter in all the churches OF
the diocese during the last nine days Of
this current year. At these devotions,
during which the faithful must join in
spirit with the pious pilgrimages which go
to Rome during those days, we allow the
benediction of the Blessed Sacrament to
be given. On the 1st of January, the
solemn day of the Golden Jubilee, let all
the people join in the devout recitation
of the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus,
the prayer for the Pope, and five Our
Fathers and Hail Marys in thanks
giving to God for the glorious pontifical
of our Holy Father Pope Leo MIL,
and in earnest supplication that he may
be spared yet many years to the Church.
JOHN JOSEPH KEANE,
Bishop of Richmond.
T.. ". TIerncy, Chancellor.
Father Tiernan goes to West Point to-
day to minister to the spiritual needs OF
the Catholics there, who number about
one hundred.
The Sisters of Charity have postponed
their contemplated fair in order that the
Catholics in the West End may have
clearer field for the one which they will
hold in Richmond Theatre next spring.
The Apostleship OF Prayer has pur-
chased a fine sanctuary lamp, at the cost
of over 800, TO hang before the taberna-
Gle in st. Patrick's church.
Misses Lizzie Hopkins, Nora Burke,
Annie Bagby, and Mary Quigby have
been appointed a committee to get up
an entertainment for the Sunday-school
boys at Christmas.
ST. JosEPH's.
Rev. P. J. Fahey is making up his re-
port for this year. He will make a very
successful showing of the work among
the colored people, particularly in Ricn-
mond, Keswick, and Union Mills. The
preparations he has been making for the
holidays will surpass anything ever wit
messed in st. Joseph's church.
The Mother Abbess has paid the con-
vent attached to this church flying
visit She left yesterday and will return
before the close of the holiday festiyi-
ties.
BISHOP JANssENs.
At the meeting of the bishops of the
Province of New Orleans, held with
view to selecting a successor of the late
Archbishop of that See, the following
names were sent to Rome Bishop Du-
rier, dignus; Bishop Janssens, digniorj
Bishop Fitzgerald, dignissimVs "a
French, n Dutch, and an Irish bishop.
Whilst in most cases the Holy See Sc
lccts the dignissimVs, it is hoped in
Catholic circles here that Bishop JAMS
sens will be the next Archbishop of New
Orleans.
ST. MARY's.
Father Roman, o. S. b., has been to
Lancaster, Pa, to the death-bed of his
mother, and returned to his post OF duty
Immediately after the funeral, which
took place on last Tuesday.
Very solemn ceremonies will take
place at st. Mary's church for the repose
of the soul of the late Arch-Abbot Boni-
face WINNER, O. S. b., an account of
whose death was published in the Dis
patch of yesterday. According to the
rubrics of the Church no requiem mass
can be sung during the Christmas holt
days up to the Octave Of Epiphany, except
cOrpOre preSente (the body being pres
ent) A requiem mass, with other cere-
monies, will take place on the first adj
MISSILE day.
Abbot Leo Haid, of st. Mary's Abbey,
in North Carolina, will arrive this morn
ing ON his way to ST. Vincent's, in
Westmoreland county, Pa. to attend
the funeral, which will probably take
place on Tuesday, in order to give
bishops, abbots, and priests, who will be
present from almost every State in the
Union, an opportunity to leave their
places after tO-day's work.
Rev. Father Willebald, o. s. b., the
prior of st. Marys, in this city, will leave
for st. Vincent on this evenings train to
be present at the funeral.
VICAR APOSTOLIC OF NORTH CAROLINA.
A telegram has been received at the
Benedictine Priory, announcing the APP
pointment of Right Rev. Abbot Leo
Haid, o. s. B., as Vicar Apostolic of
North Carolina, position once filled by
Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Keane, and at
present by Bishop Northtrop, OF Charles
ton, S. @.